Category Archives: Giant Monsters

Giant Mozzies

Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2008 by Robert Hood

There’s a tradition of giant roadside attractions in our culture, but I haven’t seen one of these before. An odd thing to celebrate with commemorative sculptures, I would’ve thought. (image credit: Artem) And to add a further weirdness, this one … Continue reading →

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Russian Giant Turtle?

Posted on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 by Robert Hood

All I know about this film is that it is Russian and dates from the late 1980s. It is supposed to be called Мутанты (trans. Mutant). If anyone can supply authoritative information regarding exact date and the name of the … Continue reading →

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Interview: Sheri Wiggins

Posted on Sunday, April 13, 2008 by Robert Hood

Birth of a Legend: The Story of the WAWA (US-2008, directed by Steve Wiggins) Sweet Tee, Alabama, has a problem; a big, wormy, carnivorous mutation that comes out of the polluted lake to chew up the residents and generally cause … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, Interviews, Kaiju Search-Robot Avery, Lake Monsters | 2 Comments

Guidolon gets Bigger!

Posted on Saturday, April 12, 2008 by Robert Hood

Meet Waitron, the daikaiju waiter! Waitron is Todd Tennant’s latest creation for Frank Wu’s Guidolon project and it is representative of the new phase that it has entered — the full-length feature film years. “The Tragical Historie of Guidolon, the … Continue reading →

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More Retro Horror: Monster From Bikini Beach

Posted on Friday, April 11, 2008 by Robert Hood

This one has a relatively big non-CGI monster, lots of girls in bikinis, splatters of blood and bare breasts. The title, plotline, attitude, SFX, music and title font are all exploitation-deco gold: Check out the trailer: Monster From Bikini Beach … Continue reading →

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The Tripods Return!

Posted on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 by Robert Hood

In 1984 the BBC produced a children’s sci-fi series based on John Christopher’s The Tripods Trilogy: The White Mountains (1967), The City of Gold and Lead (1967), and The Pool of Fire (1968). The show, called simply The Tripods, has … Continue reading →

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Bloodthirsty Dinosaurs!

Posted on Monday, April 7, 2008 by Robert Hood

Over at the Giant Monsters Attack blogspot, Mysterious Pants has discovered a wonderful set of trading cards that prove once and for all that dinosaurs were bloodthirsty giant monsters that would have brought about a general apocalypse if they hadn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Dinosaurs, Giant Monsters, Pictorial art, The Lost | 6 Comments

He Whose Limbs Shatter Mountains, Part 2

Posted on Sunday, April 6, 2008 by Robert Hood

I was in Sydney’s Chinatown recently, negotiating a tiresome crowd of zombies, when I bumped into a tall, shuffling figure wearing a trenchcoat, scalf and hat, even though it wasn’t all that cold. It was only as I apologised and … Continue reading →

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He Whose Limbs Shatter Mountains, Part 1

Posted on Sunday, April 6, 2008 by Robert Hood

As comic giant monsters go, Fin Fang Foom is one of the green-blooded aristocrats. Ranging in size somewhere between 32 feet and 100 feet (though he has been known to be reductive enough to sit in a park playing chess … Continue reading →

Posted in Article, Comics, Dragons, Giant Monsters, Graphic novels, Interviews, Where's the Film? | 4 Comments

Friggin’ Huge Giant Robot!

Posted on Saturday, April 5, 2008 by Robert Hood

The latest (unofficial?) word on Transformers 2 is that it will feature an enemy from the old cartoons that was formed from not one, not two, but six smaller giant robots: Scrapper, Bonecrusher, Scavenger, Mixmaster, Hook and Long Haul. For … Continue reading →

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